Accessibility Fundamentals for Microsoft Office 2013 and Adobe Acrobat DC (Windows)
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- Introduction to Accessibility
- Need for Accessible Content
- Types of Disabilities
- General Accessibility Concepts and Guidelines
- Creating Accessible Word Documents
- Styles
- View the Navigation Pane
- Use Headings to Create a Table of Contents
- Blank Space
- Graphics
- Tables
- Hyperlinks
- Checking Document Accessibility
- Microsoft Office Accessibility Checker
- Handling Legacy Documents
- Creating Accessible Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
- Convert a Document to a PDF File
- Run “Make Accessible Wizard”
- Touch Up Reading Order Tool
- Checking Document Accessibility
- Creating Accessible Outlook Email Messages
- Font
- Styles
- Creating clear, concise, complete and correct email messages
- Creating Accessible Excel Spreadsheets
- Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations
- Slide Reading Order
- Slide Color and Design Considerations
- Audio/Video
Fundamentals of Creating Accessible Web Pages
- SU Information and Communications Technology Accessibility Policy
- Background
- Highlights of legal actions against other colleges
- Interpreting the WCAG 2.0 AA Guidelines
- What checkpoints can be evaluated automated, which manually
- Steps for manually checking accessibility
- How people with different types of disabilities access content on the web
- Automated accessibility checker
- WAVE
- Firefox accessibility toolbar
- HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff: reviewing scan results
- Brief introduction to screen readers
- Experience JAWS
- Experience VoiceOver
- Design considerations
- Navigation & headings
- Tab focus & tab order
- skip to main content (visible vs invisible)
- link text
- contrast
- use of color to convey meaning
- forms & error identification
- other: page title, language, images containing text
- video & audio; video player accessibility
- Captioning vendors and tools